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Lucero frontman Ben Nichols performs at East Nashville’s fooBAR (sidenote: kudos to that place getting a number of fine live music bills lately) on April 21, kicking off a week-long tour that’ll take him around the scenic southeast — all on two wheels.

You guessed it:Tthe gravel-voiced Memphian is touring by motorcycle. He started dabbling in solo acoustic fare during breaks from his band a few years ago, and an EP of Cormac McCarthy-inspired tunes (featuring backing by Todd Beene of Murfreesboro stalwarts Glossary) was released in 2009.

Local Americana stalwarts Glossary are set to officially release their sixth album, Feral Fire, on February 2, but Nashville fans will have an early chance to get their hands on a disc at this weekend’s release show.

(Incidentally, the Glossary camp has more new music to offer too. Singer Joey Kneiser's first solo album, The All-night Bedroom Revival, is available for free download from the band's official site, www.glossary.us, through THIS LINK.)

The band is set to play on Saturday, Jan. 23 at The Basement (1604 Eighth Ave. S., 254-8006). The show starts at 9 p.m., and tickets are $5.

Feral Fire isn't the only bit of new music from the Glossary camp. Singer Joey Kneiser has pulled together his first solo album, The All-night Bedroom Revival, and it's available for download (at no cost) from the band's official site, www.glossary.us.

Glossary has a crop of tourdates set, meanwhile, including a couple of local ones (December 3 at the Temptation Club in Murfreesboro and January 23 at the Basement in Nashville) -- if you've never caught them live, it's highly recommended; the benefits of their 10-plus years together really show on stage.

Related: We spent some time with Glossary a few years back, around the release of their stellar For What I Don't Become -- check that out here.

Memphis rock crew Lucero will release a new album called 1372 Overton Park on Oct. 9 via Universal/Republic, but in the meantime, the long-standing, hard-touring band is streaming a preview track, “The Devil and Maggie Chascarillo,” at their official site, Luceromusic.com.

The album -- Lucero's major-label debut -- is named for the bandmembers' longtime home base. The loft at that Memphis address, a former karate dojo whose student populace included famed Memphian Elvis Presley, was home to all four Lucero members at one point, and singer Ben Nichols remained a resident there up until the building was sold and demolished.

The band shows an increased embrace of Memphis-style soul on the set, which is stocked with horns from Memphis session guru Jim Spake, along with hunks of the band's long-held country-punk vibe.

“I think the fact that we don't claim a genre is very important to what Lucero is,” singer Nichols said in an album announcement. “There are too many rules in punk rock. Too many rules in country music. We’re hard-headed and… (we) do things the way we want to do them.”

The band hits Nashville on tour supporting the album on its release date, Fri., Oct. 9, at the Cannery Ballroom (1 Cannery Row). Tickets for the 18-and-up, 9 p.m. show are $15, and they'll go on sale Fri., Aug. 7 at 10 a.m. via Ticketweb.